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The-Dood

It’s been awhile since I’ve written anything. I did a white paper review of VSYNC the other day, and beside that I’ve been doing a lot of screwing off this summer. Honestly, I spent almost 3 years sitting in front of a computer staring at charts and really needed the time off.

The 2018 crypto market is nothing like I expected. I certainly expected a correction when bitcoin rose to 20K, but never expected almost every alt to return to 2017 lows. What a pump, and what a retrace!

In the meantime I’ve been enjoying the summer, putting low buy orders in, accumulating and like most of us, hoping this bear market turns. I bought a couple motorcycles, and I’ve been riding and waiting… Riding and waiting… Riding and buying and waiting….

Finally started getting tired of riding and waiting. Time to start acting. I’ll still be traveling around a bit this summer, but it’s time to get back to work. Oh, and I’m thinking about starting a travel blog, just registered themotorcycledude.com Nothing there yet, but the wheels are in motion.

So I’ll be working on websites, updating this one… God knows it needs it. I’ll also be posting regularly again. Not sure how often but you should be able to expect at least a few posts a month. Thanks for reading, stay strong traders, sooner or later this market will turn and we will reap the rewards of our efforts!

Checking my email the other day I discovered that The Dood’s blog was selected to be included in the Feedspot Top 100 Bitcoin Blogs. I received a graphic to display on my blog, and I linked back to the website hosting the top 100 blogs. It’s a great list and if you like reading about cryptocurrency news and current crypto events, you really should check it out.

I am honored and humbled to be listed among some of the great names listed there. The list includes all our favorite news sources like, NEWSBTC, Cointelegraph, Coindesk and more. There are some great names in crypto listed there like Andreas Antonopoulos, Vinny Lingham, MadBitcoins and other great internet personalities. I honestly feel the blog isn’t worthy to be included among these names, but am truly honored that someone chose to include it in the list. I haven’t been blogging as much as I would like to lately, and I think this was the motivator I needed to get writing again. BitcoinDood.com is a labor of love and a project I work on in my spare time. I need to start making more time for writing here.

Thanks to everyone that has helped to support this project, with your comments, retweets, shares, likes and links. One of the best decisions I ever made was getting involved in the cryptocurrency space. I’ve met some of the funnest people on the internet, and learned so much from all of you. Thanks for your continued support, and I look forward to interacting with you all in the future!

I took a short break from blogging. I wrote about unplugging in a steemit post I did and frankly I was feeling a little burned out. It’s the end of summer, it’s been really hot, and between trading, twitter, social networking, and blogging, I just needed a little break. LOL, I guess you can call it that.

I have a week off from work and I decided to start a bunch of projects that I’ve put on hold for far to long. There was some badly needed site maintenance that I need to get into, I started the DoodBot project and got a cryptocurrency chat room going on Dal Net IRC. Oh, to just pile it on, switched over from coding in PHP to Python now. I guess I thought there wasn’t enough to do LOL….

So although the blog seems quiet I’m actually spending the last week of my summer vacation, taking a crash course in python, and doing a lot of design work on the site. All stuff behind the scenes, but that should improve site performance.

I discoverd bitcoindood.com has one of those ominous code warnings when you use certain browsers! There’s nothing dangerous about the site, it’s just how I set up some API calls and different PHP scripts I have running. That’s getting fixed in the next day or so, probably even tonight after I watch From Dusk Till Dawn …

DoodBot is going to be a twitter bot, that I want to post all the news, coin prices, and cryptocurrency related podcasts. I started coding him two days ago and got him working but I’m not happy with the results. DoodBot’s search results from twitter are spammy, and I’m having a hard time getting him to post the types of results I want. If you get a chance, stop by twitter and check him out https://twitter.com/NewsCryptoBot So far I’ve got the quote script working satisfactorily. If you follow, be warned DoodBot’s results are a little spammy with twitter searches, and I’m still configuring and fine tuning the results.

I started a #cryptocurrency chat room on DalNet IRC. DoodBot IRC is in that chat room, and still needs a lot of configuring too. Eventually I’m trying to figure out a way to make DoodBot IRC and DoodBot twitter communicate. I pop in and out of the that room a few times of day though, sooo if you’re bored and think of it pop in and say high 🙂 I’m @BitcoinDood and if it’s just DoodBot in there, type something in the room and I’ll see it when I check his host. Which reminds me, that has to get paid…

So, yeah, The Dood’s staying busy. I’m going to try and get back to regular blogging. The little bit of blogging I’ve been doing has been getting posted to steemit. I’ll be doing a review about that blogging platform too. Very cool site steemit … You can find me here: https://steemit.com/@the-bitcoin-dood

On a final note, it’s end of summer here and I will be back to posting regularly. Summer past by quick this year, and I’ve just been enjoying the last few weeks before it passes me by and I’m sitting in the house snowed in! LOL… Hopefully that won’t happen anytime soon, but hey I live in Buffalo NY and I’ll tell you now, it gets cold here quick. I’ll be enjoying the last few day of summer, and I’m also looking forward to the cool autumn change of seasons here. I’ll make time to post though, I promise. Hope everyone had a delightful summer, talk to you all soon!

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Nothing here is meant to be taken as financial advice. All information is posted strictly as opinion. Please seek a duly licensed professional for financial advice, not some guy on the internet who refers to himself as The Dood.
Many thanks to Feedspot.com for listing The Dood in their list of top 100 Bitcoin related blogs. I feel so honored to be included in your great list of cryptocurrency bloggers! You can find the complete list of bloggers here Full list here